Is there anyone here who has NEVER owned an iPad?

[meistervu]

I'm not saying that those features wouldn't be beneficial on a tablet. I'm saying that if you actually want a tablet, you buy one based on what's available. You don't hold off forever because there's always a phone with better specs. The next generation iPad will probably have those specs, but then there'll be a phone with even better specs.

Exactly, you buy what you need from what is available. I bought the original Palm Pilot organizer years ago. It had a few shade of grey, not color LCD. It was thick and rudimentary, and of course it could not make calls. But it filled some of my needs at the time. I could have waited, and even now I can still make excuses of other features I wish my phone had and keep waiting. You get my point.

10 years from now what we have currently would look like floppy disks. The few features that distinguish one device from another would feel inconsequential. They are all crappy devices by then. Life is short: don't wait for the perfect device.

 

[Billy95Tech]

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[2984839]

I have never owned any tablet and never will.

 

[Billy95Tech]

I was wondering if there is anyone here, who has never bought any generation of the iPad?
I am interested to see what people's reasoning behind it is.. cost? no use?

I have never owned a iPad until couple months ago(September 2015) where I bought iPad Air 2 as my 1st ever iPad(originally I was waiting for the Air 3 but unfortunately it was not announced in the September Keynote ) and before I got the Air 2 I have used other tablets 2 Android tablets and a Windows 8 tablet.

With that being said I am very very glad that I got the iPad Air 2 and not waited for the Air 3 and I am very very happy with it and I am looking to use it for a least 2/3 years before I upgrade to the iPad Air 4 or 5.

And I have completely replaced/ditched my laptop with tablets which it is AWESOME, I will NEVER go back to using laptops/desktops ever again!!

And as some people said I have been going on this forum when I did not have a iPad as well.
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As I said, up until a few months ago I'd never owned one, and I was here. Not owning an iPad doesn't mean that you never use them or have knowledge about them or have interest in them.

The same!! As some people said I have been going on this forum when I did not have a iPad as well.

 

[navaira]

I owned iPad 2 for a few months at which point I sold the 2 to my brother and got the "new iPad". A few months later I realised all it does is gather dust and I sold it. A few months ago I got an Xperia Z3 Compact tablet to accompany the same phone and I'm using it a lot, and a large part of why that is is the microSD slot.

 

[Billy95Tech]

I have never owned any tablet and never will.

Why???? Just wondering....

Sorry to say but YOU are MISSING OUT ON A LOT by not owning and using a tablet!!!!

 

[joeblow7777]

Why???? Just wondering....

Sorry to say but YOU are MISSING OUT ON A LOT by not owning and using a tablet!!!!

I can understand why someone would have no interest in owning a tablet. They are really handy devices and I use mine quite a lot, but as most people these days have a laptop and a smartphone, a tablet is definitely more of a luxury than a necessity.

 

[2984839]

Why???? Just wondering....

Sorry to say but YOU are MISSING OUT ON A LOT by not owning and using a tablet!!!!

They're glued together, mostly non-repairable, locked down devices that can't run the operating systems I want (which is really the deal breaker) and lack the number and type of ports that I want. I find touchscreens awful in every way, and the physical keyboards that are available are poor. They're basically just as limited as smartphones in this regard, only much more inconvenient to carry.

If I need to use the internet on the go, take pictures, jot down notes if I don't have pen and paper, I use my phone. If I need to do anything else, I use a laptop. Trying to work around a tablet's limitations with piles of adapters is pointless when I can just use a laptop, especially when I can run the operating system I want on it.

 

[NikkiJayne]

I've never wanted one. My parents have an iPad 3 that always seemed so slow and laggy to me, and the size (and the bulky cases they bought!) put me off it. I have an iPhone and a Macbook; why would I need an iPad?

However, I have recently decided I quite fancy a Mini 4. I think it would be handy for travelling with, as my 6s is too small for watching TV or for browsing on for any length of time.

 

[joeblow7777]

I've never wanted one. My parents have an iPad 3 that always seemed so slow and laggy to me, and the size (and the bulky cases they bought!) put me off it. I have an iPhone and a Macbook; why would I need an iPad?

However, I have recently decided I quite fancy a Mini 4. I think it would be handy for travelling with, as my 6s is too small for watching TV or for browsing on for any length of time.

Go for it. The Mini 4 is great, and to be fair, the iPad 3 was arguably the worst model, hence it being discontinued in just 8 months, so that's not the one to base your opinion of all iPads on.

 

[meistervu]

They're glued together, mostly non-repairable, locked down devices that can't run the operating systems I want (which is really the deal breaker) and lack the number and type of ports that I want. I find touchscreens awful in every way, and the physical keyboards that are available are poor. They're basically just as limited as smartphones in this regard, only much more inconvenient to carry.

If I need to use the internet on the go, take pictures, jot down notes if I don't have pen and paper, I use my phone. If I need to do anything else, I use a laptop. Trying to work around a tablet's limitations with piles of adapters is pointless when I can just use a laptop, especially when I can run the operating system I want on it.

I have built and repaired literally hundreds of computers in my life.

iPad are repairable. Like PC's, all you can do is replacing components now a day. It's a bit trickier on an iPad, but it's doable. Considering how reliable iPads are, I would rather have them than a PC for long term hassle free ownership. If you are the type of person who would like to install his own OS (and perhaps write his own OS), then taking an iPad apart and replacing broke components is a no brainer.

None of the iPads I owned so far exhibited any problem, so repairability is a non issue in my case. All my non-Apple laptops I owned so far eventually had problems (LCD stopped working, broken hinges, etc.), so while in theory they are more repairable than an iPad, they are the ones that need repairs, and none of my iPad did. So, to me reliability and repairability have to be considered together.

As for installing your own OS, if you are looking to do that then it's not really the device for you. We can debate the merit of being able to install your own OS, but there is really no point in doing that because everyone's need is different. For 99.9% of the population, I would say that not being able to install your own OS is a blessing.

Touch screen, keyboard are all personal. If you don't like them, you don't like them.

But taking thing as a whole, there is nothing about an iPad that you like. It makes total sense not to own one.

 

[garirry]

I never owned an iPad, but I have used a few rarely. Don't see the need for me, I have my desktop for everything and I barely go anywhere for the need of a tablet. Even then, a laptop is much better as it has many more things I can do with it that iPad can't.

 

[FallenLegend]

I've never bought it but I just saved to buy one. I'm just waiting for air 3 in March to buy (if it has pencil) or mini 2 if it doesn't.